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Users consistently praise the ease of use and offline capabilities of Open Live Writer, making it a convenient tool for writing and editing blog posts. The familiar interface allows for a smooth writing experience, while features like scheduling and image management enhance productivity. However, many note that its limited compatibility with newer blogging platforms can be a drawback.
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Junior Project Manager
Higher Education
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Helpful for blogging"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

I enjoyed the convenience of the scheduling feature and the option to preview the post before viewing it live. When I initially began blogging, Open Live Writer was such a relief. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

The compatibility with blogging platforms of Open Live Writer feels like it is old school. It has limited compatibility with many of the newer and more widely used content management systems like WordPress and Squarespace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE
Chief HR Officer
Construction
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Integrated image and video embedding function"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

When I began blogging, Open Live Writer was quite refreshing and a great tool to use. It was great that one could write posts in a comfortable familiar atmosphere of the desktop, for instance, in Word. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

At least, the compatibility of Open Live Writer with blogging platforms looks outdated. He does not give support to many of the new and self hosted platforms that have cropped up in the recent past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Helps me to Make My Blog Post more awesome"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

The best feature about it is it provides the offline mode of the editor to write the blog and the content. It provides the scheduling feature to schedule the blog for posting. It provides a feature to adjust and resize and write alt text on images, a Great image management feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

the updates and new features are limited and not much advanced in customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Omkar K.
OK
Cloud Service Operations Senior Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Open source application."
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

As Open love writer is a license free application, it enables the users or administrators to edit blogs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

More features for editing the blogs should be introduced to make the application more impactful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Blogging simplified"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

Open live Writer makes it easy to connect to and create posts for a number of blogs right from one interface. The interface uses a simple ribbon UI similar to that of previous versions of Windows and should be familiar to most users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

The glaring thing about this software is the lack of updates. While the UI is easy to use, it is a bit dated and has not been updated with a more modern look and feel. It still maintains the previous Windows Live app look as it was originally part of that suite of apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Haleemath Ath Hara F.
HF
Assistant Systems Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great for offline blog writing"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

It does what it promises to do - a simple offline editor that lets you write blog posts for your blog and post them when you are again online. I love that you can add multiple blogs and save your posts as drafts. It easily allows you to add images and videos without any hassle, and I sometimes feel it is actually better than the wordpress block editors. It also allows you to customize the HTML code and see its changes in real time. It also displays how your posts will look with your blog theme, which is a very helpful feature. Your posts can also be categorized and tagged. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

The interface is old-style and rather unimpressive. Adding private blogs can be a chore as you'll have to first make your blogs public, then login to the software and go back to your blog and make it private. Your blog posts are saved in Open Live Writer's own format, so you cannot access it outside the software unless you copy paste the text. Also, the HTML text is unformatted and messy with no line breaks, so it can get difficult to edit the HTML source code directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joseph D.
JD
Business Owner
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Open Live Writer Review"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

Its seems very easy to use not hard at all to using the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

havent found anything I dont like I used it a few times with no big issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

José Manuel R.
JR
Editor de contenidos digitales (freelance)
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Write in an orderly, clean and easy way"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

I write my entries in a pleasant way, since the interface is friendly, pleasant and very easy to use. I keep my work organized, clean and without fear of publishing wrong information. I write, I label, I place images, links and when I have everything ready I simply publish the content in my blogs (WordPress and Blogger). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

It is a great help application, easy to use and it allows me to work with different blogs in an orderly and organized way, I can not ask for more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Diana T.
DT
SOCIEDAD IBEROAMERICANA DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA (SIIC)
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simplify the work of writing and editing"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

The interface allows me to write and edit my articles in a much more pleasant way than with the blog platform and I do not have to write in Word to later copy in the blog, insert the image and publish, which was what I used to do. The Open Live Writer platform has a design very similar to Microsoft Word but with tools that allow me to insert images, videos, tables, etc., and work previewing it to later publish it from the same platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

Previously I was upset that I could not use it for Blogger but it is already a resolved issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julio César G.
JG
Copy Editor
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Powerful software for editing texts"
What do you like best about Open Live Writer?

It is a text editor of Windows, powerful, lightweight easy to download with all the necessary tools to create and edit your texts, it is very good if you need to add images and videos to accompany the writing, it is not necessary to have internet to use it, in fact You can save your texts if at the moment you do not have Internet to publish, also it has the advantage of being an open source software, and user support is quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Live Writer?

It is not compatible with Mac computers, only Window Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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